Recently, I needed a way to automate the generation of 100+ Apple Push notification certificates for my iOS development. So, I created a Ruby Gem [keychain_manager] to automate the Mac OS X Keychain application.
Here is how you can use it:
gem install keychain_manager
require 'keychain_manager' USER = 'firstname.lastname@example.org' KEYCHAIN = 'apple_push_keychain' #this can be anything, we just don't want to pollute the 'login' keychain YOUR_DOWNLOADS_DIR = '' # you must set this, this is where the file aps_production_identity.cer exists RSA_FILE = '/tmp/myrsa.key' KeychainManager.generate_rsa_key(RSA_FILE) CERT_FILE = '/tmp/CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest' KeychainManager.generate_cert_request(USER, 'US', CERT_FILE) #'US' is the country abbreviation. kcm = KeychainManager.new(KEYCHAIN) kcm.delete if kcm.exists? kcm.create kcm.import_rsa_key(RSA_FILE) #now from your browser, you'll have downloaded a file from Apple typically named: aps_production_identity.cer kcm.import_apple_cert(File.join(YOUR_DOWNLOADS_DIR, '/aps_production_identity.cer')) P12_FILE = '/tmp/push_prod.p12' kcm.export_identites(P12_FILE) PEM_FILE = '/tmp/push_prod.pem' KeychainManager.convert_p12_to_pem(P12_FILE, PEM_FILE) kcm.delete #Now upload the PEM_FILE to your server.
This gem could easily be modified to support other Keychain functions. Browse the sourcecode here: Keychain Manager source code.
I'll post soon on how I automated the web portion of communicating with the iOS Provisioning Portal.
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